dreading

Example Sentences

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Dreading intimacy, he safeguarded his freedom by cultivating his own brand of anti-charisma.

From Washington Post • Jun. 14, 2021

Q. Dreading a move: My partner recently matched for his medical residency training in a city where we know no one, and I have few career prospects.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2021

Dreading opening night, Robbins revised and edited relentlessly, sometimes torturously, demanding unheard of time in the studio.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2018

Dreading the appointment, a senior manager gave him some sage advice: “Just tell them you want to run an experiment,” he said.

From Forbes • Jan. 21, 2015

Dreading the thought of spending another night in some cheap hotel if I could not get a room at the Y, I considered hiding in the church and sleeping there in one of the pews.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin